Hey guys, I put stainless steel lines, new pads and fluid on my Prelude over the weekend. After nothing but problems through the installation, I continue to have bad luck.

The petal is not very firm, and the brakes are sloppy as hell. It feels much worse than before the brake job. To add to it, my right rear caliper is binding, and makes a pretty horrible sound...

We did a complete flush of the brake system and bled the hell out of them, so I don't see how there can still be air in the lines. The pads are Hawk Performance, and I did the proper break-in as they suggest. I haven't checked it today, so I don' know if there's a leak in the system or what.

And suggestions to how I can solve this are needed! This is the car I have to go to work in everyday!!!

 

check to make sure you're not getting any leaks from the hoses/piping. you may have an issue with your master cylinder. when you're bleeding, does the pedal firm up at all?

 

also, check to make sure that the fluid level isn't getting too low in the cylinder as you bleed, keep the fluid level up

 

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I'm gonna check all the hoses in a few minutes. The pedal firmed up strong when we bled them... I'm thinking it could be a leak...

We made sure they fluid level in the cylinder was always full while bleeding.

 

Few suggestions:

For break-in, did you drive to 40mph and stand on the brakes? I thought that was the proper break in procedure - doing it a few times.

Also, did you hand bleed the brakes or what?

Another thing, did you do the proper bleeding procedure? FL - RR, then RL-FR?

If that doesn't work, you might want to take off the brake master cylinder and bench bleed it.

Hm what else........you can try to get some sand paper - and sanding the pads a little bit. I always do this before I put on new pads.

Take a look at your rotors, and see if they are glazed over. Tell me if they are.

Did you make sure you turned the piston in all the way before putting on the caliper?

Make sure your slider pins/caliper pins aren't seized. If they are, it'll make it grab.

 

if he didnt turn his rotors and just left them they might be too far under and even with the new pad he might be fading because his calper is bottomed out ?

 

If you drained the fluid completly before installing the lines, then your abs probably needs to be bleed.